LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alexander the Great	Royalty	Jul-356 BC	10-Jun-323 BC	World conqueror
Guillaume Amontons	Physicist	31-Aug-1663	11-Oct-1705	Thermometrist
Anaxagoras	Philosopher	c. 500 BC	c. 428 BC	Matter composed of infinite elements
Anaximander	Philosopher	c. 609 BC	c. 546 BC	First to develop a cosmology
Anaximenes of Miletus	Philosopher	c. 585 BC	c. 525 BC	Aer as the source of all things
Archimedes	Mathematician	c. 290 BC	211 BC	Greatest of the ancient mathematicians
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander	Astronomer	22-Mar-1799	17-Feb-1875	Durchmusterung
Aristarchus of Samos	Astronomer	c. 310 BC	c. 230 BC	First heliocentrist
Aristotle	Philosopher	384 BC	322 BC	Politics
Boethius	Philosopher	c. 470 AD	524 AD	Consolation of Philosophy
George Boole	Mathematician	2-Nov-1815	8-Dec-1864	Inventor of Boolean Algebra
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich	Astronomer	18-May-1711	13-Feb-1787	Theoria philosophiae naturalis
Tycho Brahe	Astronomer	14-Dec-1546	24-Oct-1601	Copper-nosed Danish astronomer
Ernest W. Brown	Astronomer	29-Nov-1866	22-Jul-1938	Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Edgar Rice Burroughs	Author	1-Sep-1875	19-Mar-1950	Tarzan
William W. Campbell	Astronomer	11-Apr-1862	14-Jun-1938	Stellar Motions
Anders Celsius	Astronomer	27-Nov-1701	25-Apr-1744	Astronomer, invented centigrade scale
Carl Charlier	Astronomer	1-Apr-1862	5-Nov-1934	Motion and the Distribution of the Stars
William W. Coblentz	Astronomer	20-Nov-1873	15-Sep-1962	Infrared spectroscopy
Arthur H. Compton	Physicist	10-Sep-1892	15-Mar-1962	Discovered the Compton Effect
Karl T. Compton	Physicist	15-Sep-1887	22-Jun-1954	Bikini Island atomic tests
Nicolaus Copernicus	Astronomer	19-Feb-1473	24-May-1543	Heliocentrist, De revolutionibus
Willem de Sitter	Astronomer	6-May-1872	19-Nov-1934	Expanding space
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre	Astronomer	19-Sep-1749	19-Aug-1822	Histoire de l'Astronomie
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle	Astronomer	4-Apr-1688	11-Sep-1768	Founded St. Petersburg observatory
Democritus	Philosopher	c. 460 BC	c. 370 BC	Early atomic theorist
Henri Alexandre Deslandres	Astronomer	24-Jul-1853	15-Jan-1948	Spectroheliograph
Frank W. Dyson	Astronomer	8-Jan-1868	25-May-1939	Six pips on the BBC
Arthur Eddington	Astronomer	28-Dec-1882	22-Nov-1944	Eddington luminosity
Robert Emden	Mathematician	4-Mar-1862	8-Oct-1940	Stellar structure
Epimenides	Poet	fl. 6th c. BC	fl. 6th c. BC	Deep-sleep prophet of Crete
Eratosthenes	Mathematician	276 BC	194 BC	First to measure the Earth
Euclid	Mathematician	c. 365 BC	c. 275 BC	The Elements
Eudoxus of Cnidus	Mathematician	c. 390 BC	c. 340 BC	Influential Greek mathematician
Alfred Fowler	Astronomer	22-Mar-1868	24-Jun-1940	Celestial spectroscopy
Galen	Doctor	129 AD	c. 216 AD	The medical authority for over 1000 years
Christopher Hansteen	Astronomer	26-Sep-1784	15-Apr-1873	Studied terrestrial magnetism
Louis Henyey	Astronomer	3-Feb-1910	18-Feb-1970	Henyey method
Heraclitus	Philosopher	c. 540 BC	c. 480 BC	Fire-centric theory of the universe
Herodotus	Historian	c. 484 BC	c, 425 BC	The Histories
Caroline Herschel	Astronomer	16-Mar-1750	9-Jan-1848	Astronomer, sister of William
Ejnar Hertzsprung	Astronomer	8-Oct-1873	21-Oct-1967	Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Hipparchus	Astronomer	c. 190 BC	c. 120 BC	Cataloguer of stars, trigonometrist
Hippocrates	Doctor	c. 460 BC	c. 377 BC	Father of Medicine
William Huggins	Astronomer	7-Feb-1824	12-May-1910	Spectrographic astronomy pioneer
Hypatia of Alexandria	Curator	c. 370 AD	Mar-415 AD	Librarian of Alexandria
Pierre Janssen	Astronomer	22-Feb-1824	23-Dec-1907	Solar observer
Harold Spencer Jones	Astronomer	29-Mar-1890	3-Nov-1960	10th Royal Astronomer of England
Jacobus C. Kapteyn	Astronomer	19-Jan-1851	18-Jan-1922	Star streaming
Theodore von Kármán	Mathematician	11-May-1881	7-May-1963	Kármán vortices
Hendrik Kramers	Physicist	17-Feb-1894	24-Apr-1952	Kramers dispersion theory
Jonathan Homer Lane	Astronomer	9-Aug-1819	3-May-1880	Gravitational equilibrium of the Sun
Henrietta Swan Leavitt	Astronomer	4-Jul-1868	12-Dec-1921	Cepheid variable
Leucippus	Philosopher	fl 5th c. BC	fl. 5th c. BC	Father of Atomism
Armin O. Leuschner	Astronomer	16-Jan-1868	22-Apr-1953	Astronomer at Berkeley
James Lick	Business	25-Aug-1796	1-Oct-1876	Lick Observatory
Bertil Lindblad	Astronomer	26-Nov-1895	25-Jun-1965	Spiral structure of the galaxy
Paul W. Merrill	Astronomer	15-Aug-1887	19-Jul-1961	S-process of nucleosynthesis
E. Arthur Milne	Mathematician	14-Feb-1896	21-Sep-1950	Kinematic relativity
Hermann Minkowski	Mathematician	22-Jun-1864	12-Jan-1909	Minkowski space
Rudolph Minkowski	Astronomer	28-May-1895	4-Jan-1976	Galaxies in collision
Marcel Minnaert	Astronomer	12-Feb-1893	26-Oct-1970	Solar spectrophotometry
Simon Newcomb	Astronomer	12-Mar-1835	11-Jul-1909	Nautical Almanac
Seth Barnes Nicholson	Astronomer	12-Nov-1891	2-Jul-1963	Four satellites of Jupiter
Wilhelm Olbers	Astronomer	11-Oct-1758	2-Mar-1840	Studied asteroids, comets
Jack Parsons	Scientist	2-Oct-1914	17-Jul-1952	Satanic rocket scientist
Nicholas Claude Fabri de Peiresc	Astronomer	1-Dec-1580	24-Jun-1637	Discovered Orion Nebula
John S. Plaskett	Astronomer	17-Nov-1865	17-Oct-1941	Plaskett's star
Plato	Philosopher	c. 427 BC	c. 347 BC	The Republic
Ludwig Prandtl	Physicist	4-Feb-1875	15-Aug-1953	Father of Aerodynamics
Ptolemy	Astronomer	c. 87 AD	c. 150 AD	Egyptian geographer and astronomer
Pythagoras	Mathematician	c. 580 BC	c. 500 BC	Pythagorean Theorem
Benjamin Count Rumford	Scientist	26-Mar-1753	21-Aug-1814	Established the Rumford Medal
Sappho	Poet	fl. c. 610 BC	fl. c. 580 BC	The Tenth Muse
Ernest Shackleton	Explorer	15-Feb-1874	5-Jan-1922	Antarctic explorer
Sophocles	Playwright	c. 496 BC	406 BC	Oedipus the King
Leo Szilard	Physicist	11-Feb-1898	30-May-1964	Nuclear chain reaction
Brook Taylor	Mathematician	18-Aug-1685	29-Dec-1731	Calculus of Finite Differences
Xenophanes	Poet	c. 560 BC	c. 478 BC	Pre-Socratic, early monotheist
Richard Zsigmondy	Chemist	1-Apr-1865	23-Sep-1929	Researcher of colloids

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